>But at the same time, from your point of view as creator of the product,
>it's important to adhere to the principle of "accept liberally, generate
>conservatively". What you're doing is generating HTML. While the user
> is
>happily pecking away at his document, you need to make sure that the
> HTML
>that you're quietly representing it with in the background is always
> valid.
>(Or if it temporarily isn't, somehow let the user know that something's
>wrong with what they're attempting to do.)
Well if we define that "unrecognized tags' are ignored, I think we can
generate HTML to do nifty stuff, that might get ignore, but oh well.
Recently I browsed some WWW pages using NCSA Mosaic version 1.x, and guess
what? No forms. But no crash, no great tragedy.
Alex Hopmann
ResNova Software, Inc.